Numeracy

How can we design and teach mathematics curricula in ways that more meaningfully connect with students’ current and future lives?

A team of Australian school students has received the second highest honour in the 2021 International Mathematical Modeling Challenge (IM²C), contested by 51 teams from 27 different countries.

ACER experts say Australia must increase its adult literacy and numeracy workforce, and implement a range of workplace, community and family literacy programs.

ACER's submission to the parliamentary inquiry into adult skills calls for continued national monitoring of adult literacy and numeracy.

Two teams from Australia's John Monash Science School will progress to the final judging round of the 2021 International Mathematical Modeling Challenge (IM²C).

Almost one in four Australian Year 8 students were being taught maths in 2018 by teachers whose major qualification was in a field other than maths, new analysis reveals.